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Re: help whos incorrect


From: Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso
Subject: Re: help whos incorrect
Date: Sun, 16 Jan 2011 14:52:48 -0600

On 16 January 2011 00:42, Michael D Godfrey <address@hidden> wrote:
> I noticed Attr flags in a whos command that are not in the help whos
> documentation.  Since whos is builtin I do not know where the documentation
> is kept.

Builtins have their docstring inside a defun. As Rik suggested, you
can look in variables.cc. Grep down to the defun to find the docstring
at line 1729 (hah, cute number). Note the peculiar formatting
requirements due to it being a C string.

- Jordi G. H.


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